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Blade Servers

ALSO CALLED: Server Blade Hardware, Bladed Servers, Blade Server Hardware, High-density Servers, Server Blades, and Blades
DEFINITION: A blade server is a server chassis housing multiple thin, modular electronic circuit boards, known as server blades. Each blade is a server in its own right, often dedicated to a single application. The blades are literally servers on a card, containing processors,  … 
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Virtualization Decisions Resource Center
sponsored by SAVVIS
PRODUCT LITERATURE:   Posted: 13 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: Access this Resource Center to learn considerations for bringing virtualization to enterprises, how to make virtualization as painless as possible for IT staff and best practices for evaluating applications and systems.

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Focus Research Series: Desktop and Application Delivery Landscape Report with All Profiles
sponsored by Focus Consulting
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 18 Apr 2008 | Published: 30 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: This excerpt of the Focus Landscape Research Series covers the drivers, trends, technical approaches and available solutions involved in evaluating and implementing desktop and application virtualization and delivery alternatives.

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What is the simplest way to get started with Virtualization
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
VIDEOCAST:   Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | When: 25 Apr 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
SUMMARY: This videocast series provides virtualization infrastructure advice for IT groups at different stages of development, from experts with real-world field experience with virtualization.

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Change-ready Infrastructure Offers Ultimate Freedom: HP Virtual Connect
sponsored by PC Connection and HP
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007
SUMMARY: HP Virtual Connect works with other virtualization products and technologies to provide virtual connections for your virtual machines, a complete solution and a roadmap to future solutions.

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Chapter Download: Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs
sponsored by Focus Consulting
BOOK:   Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | Published: 16 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This chapter is a guide for those learning about and implementing server virtualization technologies. Topics discussed include important terminology, server virtualization architectures and implementations, managing virtual environments, an...

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HP BladeSystem c-Class SAN Connectivity Technology Brief
sponsored by PC Connection and HP
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 15 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
SUMMARY: This paper describes the hardware and software required to connect HP BladeSystem c--Class server blades to Storage Area Networks1 (SANs) using Fibre Channel (FC) interconnect technology.

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Control Power and Cooling for Data Center Efficiency: HP Thermal Logic Technology
sponsored by PC Connection and HP
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 15 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2006
SUMMARY: HP Thermal Logic gives you the unique ability to monitor, pool, balance performance, power, and cooling, according to the task at hand and cap power and cooling levels at the most efficient level for the required level of performance.

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Blades for Virtualized Data Centers: Return on Investment and Total Cost of Ownership
sponsored by IBM and Intel
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 14 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This document is based on an IBM /Informatica/TechTarget webcast entitled "Blades for Virtualized Data Centers: Return on Investment and Total Cost of Ownership."

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Blades, Server Consolidation, and Virtualization: Considerations and Best Practices
sponsored by PC Connection and HP
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 08 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This document is based on a PC Connection/TechTarget webcast entitled "Blades, Server Consolidation, and Virtualization: Considerations and Best Practices.

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White Paper: Deployment Best Practices for Low-cost Enterprise Information Integration
sponsored by IBM and Intel
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
SUMMARY: IBM® Information Server is a revolutionary new software platform that helps organizations derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems.

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BLADE SERVERS DEFINITION (continued): …  memory, integrated network controllers, an optional Fiber Channel host bus adaptor (HBA) and other input/output (IO) ports.

Blade servers allow more processing power in less rack space, simplifying cabling and reducing power consumption. According to a SearchWinSystems.com article on server technology, enterprises moving to blade servers can experience as much as an 85% reduction in cabling for blade installations over conventional 1U or tower … 
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